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Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was
dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively
instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This
distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the
long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major
contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A
Public Career Remembered, this volume brings together an
exceptional team of Singaporean scholars whose interdisciplinary
expertise and cross-generational perspectives offer a balanced
analysis and nuanced appraisal of Dr. Goh's lifetime of public
service. The book's contributors argue that Dr. Goh's past
endeavours bequeathed an enduring legacy, meriting fresh
examination and careful evaluation in order to appreciate the
heroic scale of such achievement.Particularly instructive are the
examples of Dr. Goh's thinking patriotism, fiscal prudence,
strategic pragmatism, and creative imagination at work -
technocracy at its finest - which could be of immediate, practical
benefit to a wider 'nation of technocrats'. Further illumination
comes from the insights of those contributors who had worked with
the former Deputy Prime Minister and knew him personally. For a
half-century that witnessed key turning points and phases of
development in Singapore's transformation from colonial port city
to independent global city, Dr. Goh played a leading role in the
crafting and conduct of public policy, as with the creation of
public institutions, which made the difference between survival and
success. The organization of this volume reflects both a thematic
approach and a chronological arrangement of material, the focus and
the order of chapters corresponding to the historical sequence of
public offices that Dr. Goh held: social welfare; political and
constitutional evolution; development economics and finance; the
armed forces and defence industry; the education system, from
schools through higher education to the research institutes;
Chinese studies, from Confucianism to 'China watching'; and
cultural development, with special emphasis on the creation of the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra.Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public
Service will be read by present and future generations of public
servants, by Singaporeans in general, and by all students and
laypersons with an interest in the modern history of Singapore -
social, economic, political, military, and cultural - to which a
characteristically simple and frugal Dr. Goh contributed both
decisively and unreservedly.
This book is an edited volume about China-ASEAN relations with
contributions from experts based in China and Singapore. The book
includes a few excellent papers that were presented at a conference
the editor organized in October 2009 and also two other research
papers. They examine China-ASEAN relations from a sub-regional
cooperation perspective. The book discusses and analyzes
China-ASEAN cooperation in the Greater Mekong River Sub-region
(GMS), the emerging Pan-Beibu economic zone, ASEAN's growth
triangles, and the hydraulic power sector, as well as China-ASEAN
economic relations in the wake of the financial crisis. They
carefully review the progresses that have been achieved, examine
new policy proposals that have been put forth, and explore problems
that exist in all these sub-regional cooperation schemes between
China and ASEAN.
This is a wonderfully illustrated and evocative look at the natural
history of the Malay Peninsula. Now for the first time, all 477
drawings of the flora and fauna of the Malay Peninsula commissioned
by Colonel William Farquhar during his time as British Resident and
Commandant of Malacca from 1803 to 1818, are published in one
volume. Covering a wide spectrum of species, the evocative
paintings were rendered in brilliant watercolour by Chinese artists
who employed both Chinese and Western painting techniques. In an
era when photography was non-existent, the only means of recording
nature and wildlife was through painting. Accompanied by
authoritative essays and detailed captions, "Natural History
Drawings" is a fascinating window both into the natural history of
the time and the 19th-century British settlement in the Malay
Peninsula.
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